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Torch, Summer 2006 Cedarville University Cedarville University DigitalCommons@Cedarville Torch 6-1-2006 Torch, Summer 2006 Cedarville University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/torch Part of the Higher Education Commons, and the Organizational Communication Commons Recommended Citation Cedarville University, "Torch, Summer 2006" (2006). Torch. 13. https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/torch/13 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@Cedarville, a service of the Centennial Library. It has been accepted for inclusion in Torch by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Cedarville. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Da Vinci Code : Just the Facts THE BOOK Author: Dan Brown First release: March 18, 2003 (hardcover) by Doubleday Second release: March 28, 2006 (paperback) by Anchor Copies sold worldwide: 45 million THE MOVIE Release: May 19, 2006 Director: Ron Howard Producer: Brian Grazer Writers: Dan Brown (novel), Akiva Goldsman (screenplay) Cast: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen, Alfred Molina ince March 2003, Dan Brown’s novel, MPAA rating: PG-13 The Da Vinci Code, has sold more than 40 million Production co.: Columbia Pictures and Imagine Entertainment copies worldwide. By any standard, the book is a Distributor: Sony Pictures Production budget: $125 million S publishing success, and its popularity has brought its author wealth and influence. Brown made more than $75 million last year alone and was #12 on Forbes And that’s saying something. It would be bad enough magazine’s list of most influential celebrities — ahead of that Brown has gone into New Age overdrive by trying David Letterman and Michael Jordan. to draw together the Grail, Mary Magdalene, the The book has actually received mixed reviews. Knights Templar, the Priory of Sion, Rosicrucianism, Novelist Nelson DeMille exclaimed, “Dan Brown has to Fibonacci Numbers, the Isis Cult, and the Age of be one of the best, smartest, and most accomplished Aquarius, but he has done it so sloppily.” writers in the country … this is pure So what gives? How can a mediocre book cause genius.” The New York Daily News such a stir? Why is the movie version of the book being wrote, “His research is touted as the “cultural event of the decade”? impeccable.” This issue of TORCH is dedicated to making sense On the other hand, Laura of The Da Vinci Code … not simply to grapple with its Miller at Salon.com countered, message, refute its assertions, or even to expose its error. “The Da Vinci Code has characters There are many excellent Web sites and resources so thin they’re practically transparent, available to help Christians do those things. Rather, my ludicrous dialogue, and prose that’s passion is that we will go one step further and see 100 percent cliché.” Celebrated writer The Da Vinci Code as an opportunity: Salmon Rushdie added, “The Da Vinci Code is so bad it makes bad • an opportunity to peer into the window of our books look good.” The most Postmodern culture stinging review came from • an opportunity to engage our culture with the Peter Millar of The London heart and mind of Christ Times. He wrote, “This is • an opportunity to share the Truth with people without doubt, the silliest, who are spiritually hungry most inaccurate, ill- So, while The Da Vinci Code readers “seek the truth,” informed, stereotype- let’s be there to listen, answer questions, and point them driven, quaff-eared, to the source of Truth. Indeed, the Truth will set us free! cardboard-cutout- populated piece of pulp fiction that I have read. Dr. Bill Brown Cedarville University President 2 TORCH / Summer 2006 Editor’s Notes Features everal months ago, Dr. Hayes Wicker S(senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Naples, Florida, and a Cedarville University The Heart of the Conspiracy 4 trustee) asked Dr. Brown to address his congregation on the subject of The Da We’ve been fooled, or so claims Vinci Code. Thus began Dr. Brown’s The Da Vinci Code. To seek the Truth, personal journey of reading, first understand the alleged conspiracy. understanding, researching, writing, and responding to The Da Vinci Code. In addition to the presentation at It’s Time to Seek the Truth 6 First Baptist, Dr. Brown addressed the University family in chapel on April 3 on The historic and biblical understanding the subject of The Da Vinci Code. With of Jesus, the early church, and the keen public interest in the book and New Testament do not fare well in movie, local media have also approached The Da Vinci Code. Dr. Brown as a source for expert commentary. Dr. Brown’s blog entries (www.xanga.com/billbrown) on the subject have also been widely read. Christians and the Movies 12 This issue of TORCH features American entertainment shapes the values Dr. Brown’s research and perspectives on and behaviors of our culture. How should The Da Vinci Code. You will learn from we respond? his insights and careful study. You will be challenged by his passion to engage the culture with the heart and mind of Christ. We hope you’ll be reminded to pray for How Did Leonardo Dr. Brown and for Cedarville. Get Involved in All This? 14 We continually need God’s wisdom and direction to fulfill our mission to Leonardo was the Renaissance man. equip students for lifelong leadership and Was he also a conspirator? service through an education marked by excellence and grounded in biblical truth. Make the Most Editor Cedarville TORCH David Ormsbee Vol. 27, No. 1, Summer 2006 Published by of the Opportunity 16 Managing Editor Cedarville University Dr. Bill Brown, President The message of The Da Vinci Code is no Janice Supplee NO PAID SUBSCRIPTIONS Associate Editor Cedarville TORCH doubt disturbing, but God may have a Kara DeMusz is published for alumni and friends of Cedarville University. much greater work in mind. Proofreader Direct comments and requests for Wendy Orchard extra copies to: Managing Editor Senior Designer Cedarville TORCH Michael Bieniek 251 N. Main St. Cedarville, OH 45314 Photography 937-766-7808 Joining the Conversation 18 [email protected] Scott Huck www.cedarville.edu Reading opens exciting opportunities to 1-800-CEDARVILLE participate in significant and thought- ISSN 1093-4618 provoking conversations. Summer 2006 / TORCH 3 BY DR. BILL BROWN o doubt the subject we think He is. The early church is not what matter surrounding we were taught it was. The New Testament is NThe Da Vinci Code nowhere close to what it should be. We have has captured the imagination been duped, and the truth has been kept from of millions. The ripple effects us by the greatest conspiracy the world has ever of the story are seen from London (not) known. courtrooms to cable documentaries. Six of the top 20 best-selling books in the “Christian” Not a bad premise for a book that covers only 24 category on Amazon.com are derived from hours and includes murder, kidnapping, secret The Da Vinci Code’s major thesis. What is this organizations, albino monks, and dead knights. thesis embedded in The Da Vinci Code? I don’t want to reveal the story to you because Simply this: We’ve been fooled. you may plan on either reading the book or seeing the movie. It is in the genre of a thriller By “we,” I mean Christians in particular and with lots of action and plot twists. Instead of the Western world in general. Jesus is not who evaluating the story (which is rather predictable 4 TORCH / Summer 2006 According to The Da Vinci Code, the following is really what happened in the first few centuries of the Christian era: and manipulative), I will describe the core Jesus Christ was a good man – a powerful teacher who taught love and of the larger controversy: the conspiracy, the morality. He gathered together a group of followers who spread His teachings cover-up, and the truth. throughout the region of Palestine. When Roman and Jewish leaders saw His popularity as a threat, they worked together to eliminate Him. Remember that both the novel and the Like most Jewish men of his time, Jesus was married. In fact, according to movie are fiction. However, in today’s world The Da Vinci Code, he married Miriam of Magdela, whom we know as many people have a problem separating Mary Magdalene, and they had a daughter whom they named Sarah. After truth from fiction. Any movie that hints Jesus’ death on the cross, which was merely a political execution, Mary and at real historical events takes on an daughter Sarah moved to France where the line of Jesus continued, perpetuated authoritative and interpretative role in the through a royal family of leaders in France. minds of many. Some, for example, think Mary was not only the mother of the bloodline of Jesus; she was the recognized that the 1960 movie Inherit the Wind is leader of the early church. In fact, the early church practiced several forms of really what happened in the Scopes Trial in worship of the sacred feminine. The conspiracy goes on to state that more than 80 gospels were written that tell the true story of these early years. The early church continued in goddess worship until the fourth century when Emperor Constantine, in an effort to consolidate his power, decided he needed Remember that both this growing religion to reflect a social structure that would be more helpful to him politically. He called a council of church leaders in A.D. 325 in Nicea. According to the conspiracy, this council of more than 300 early church leaders the novel and the narrowly voted to designate Jesus as divine; ordered the destruction of all but the four gospels that taught that Jesus was divine; and ruled that all the writings movie are fiction.
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